Working Group 4: Practice & Accreditation

Co-leads

Sarah Gray (WRAP) and Paul Hogg (RHUL)

Researchers

Fergus Dowling (WRAP)

Membership

13 members

This group aims to provide policymakers with greater confidence in using LCA to inform and evaluate policy, and to explore the potential for accrediting LCA practitioners. The group will then develop recommendations for government on how to proceed with accreditation if deemed desirable or necessary.

Key questions

  • What would give policymakers greater confidence in using LCA to inform and evaluate policy?
  • Should there be accreditation of LCA and LCA practitioners for regulatory science, and if so, how would this be developed?

Working Group 4: Practice & Accreditation

PDF Outputs

Working Group 4: LCA Accreditations: International Practices

The purpose of this report is to consider international best practice that could give policymakers greater confidence in using LCA to inform and evaluate policy, in order to test the above hypotheses. Specifically, it is focussed on discovering current practices around certification of LCA and LCA practitioners for regulatory science.

Lead Authors Alberto Iranzo, Keith James, Sarah Gray
Organisation WRAP
2026 View PDF — Working Group 4: LCA Accreditations: International Practices
PDF Outputs

Working Group 4: Practice & Accreditation, Executive Summary

Working Group 4 recommends that formalisation of accreditation for LCA practitioners would give industry and policy makers confidence in their abilities and a guarantee of ethical conduct. This need will become more urgent as the weight of legislation prompted by environmental policies requires an increasing number of active professionals both undertaking LCA’s and verifying them.

Lead Authors Working Group 4
2026 View PDF — Working Group 4: Practice & Accreditation, Executive Summary